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Can Nigeria become a Nation Under Buhari? By Steve Orji Listening to and probing deeper into the sentiments of Nigerians, tells you something ominous and it is the fact that there are yet very deep cracks within the notion of Nigeria’s nationhood. The ethnic sentiments often couched in speeches or responses to national issues, captured…

Nigeria shoots down new Codes of Corporate Governance The Federal Government through the Minister for Trade, Investment and Industry, has shot down by suspending the Code of Corporate Governance issued by Financial Reporting Council of Nigeria last month. The Federal Government took this action because some queries raised on the Codes are yet to be…

Adeosun restates FG’s commitment to PPP model in Infrastructure development for Nigerian Economy Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, on Thursday, explained that the current administration decided to invest heavily in infrastructure because it is convinced the effort would translate into growth for the Nigerian economy. Speaking at the African Development Bank Knowledge Sharing Forum in Abuja, the…

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Alexander Ekemenah Introduction What started as a child’s play around 2005 at the beginning of militancy in the Niger Delta has now assumed worrisome national dimension. It has now become a clear and present danger to national security in terms of safety of individuals, their freedom of movement without fear of the men of the…

Akwa Ibom State Government has lined up several activities to mark 2017 Democracy Day and 2ndAnniversay of Governor Udom Emmanuel’s administration. A statement by the Commissioner of Information and Strategy, Mr. Charles Udoh, tagged ‘Two Years of Working Beyond the Promise’ said activities marking the 2017 Democracy Day in the state and 2nd anniversary of…

Alex Ekemenah Precisely as Nigeria did not appear on the list of top-22 universities in the emerging markets, so also she did not enter into the top-25 most powerful militaries in the world. According to a recent report by Skye Gould of Business Insider: “Despite an increasingly tense situation in the South China Sea, continued…

Lagos, Nigeria – The Nigerian Stock Exchange, in partnership with the Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative, United Nations Women, United Nations Global Compact, International Finance Corporation, the World Federation of Exchanges, WIMBIZ, and Women in ETFs, organised a symposium to celebrate International Women’s Day 2018, on Thursday, March 8, 2018, at the Stock Exchange House in…

According to the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Fidelity Bank Plc, Nnamdi Okonkwo, who lamented the 43 per cent figure, banks must develop innovative solutions that will bring those outside the banking space to embrace financial institutions services and products. Only about 43 per cent of Nigeria’s estimated 180 million people are currently…

The nation’s top lawyers recently battled artificial intelligence in a competition to interpret contracts — and they lost. A new study, conducted by legal AI platform LawGeex in consultation with law professors from Stanford University, Duke University School of Law, and University of Southern California, pitted twenty experienced lawyers against an AI trained to evaluate…

In this interview, political activist, Chief Ayo Opadokun, who as a chieftain of National Democratic Coalition (NADECO), was one of the compatriots that fought the military to a standstill to restore democratic rule in Nigeria, told Niyi Bello (Political Editor) and Seye Olumide, that a new battle to right the wrongs of military incursion in…

By Atiku Abubakar Over the weekend, I joined my children to watch the much talked about ‘Black Panther’. It was a good film, and I was happy they took me to see it. However, I came out of the movie theatre a little upset. When the first scenes came up, and I saw “Sambisa Forest”,…

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L-R: Former First Lady of Lagos State and Chairman, Learn NGO/Ella Care, Dame Abimbola Fashola; Director General, The Nigerian Stock Exchange (NSE), Oscar Onyema, and Deputy British Deputy High Commissioner to Nigeria, Laure Beaufils, during the NSE International Women’s Day Symposium on the theme, “Press for Progress” held at The Exchange in Lagos yesterday, March 8, 2018.

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Lagos, Nigeria – The Nigerian Stock Exchange, in partnership with the Sustainable Stock Exchanges Initiative, United Nations Women, United Nations Global Compact, International Finance Corporation, the World Federation of Exchanges, WIMBIZ, and Women in ETFs, organised a symposium to celebrate International Women’s Day 2018, on Thursday, March 8, 2018, at the Stock Exchange House in…

The tip-off came from the British government itself that Downing Street had no stomach for a fight over Ukraine and Russia’s takeover of Crimea. Four years ago when the European Union and the United States were bracing themselves to punish Russia and were debating what sanctions to impose, a British official allowed a note detailing…

THE Senate has summoned the ‎Inspector-General of Police, Ibrahim Idris and the Chief of Army Staff, Lt.-Gen. Tukur Buratai, to explain the circumstances surrounding the abduction of 110 students of Government Girls Science and Technical College, Dapchi, Yobe State, by Boko Haram on February 19. The invitation followed the adoption of a motion moved by…

WIFE of the President Mrs Aisha Buhari says she shares in the sorrow and agony of parents of all abducted girls in the country. Mrs Buhari said that she shared the agony of especially parents of the abducted Chibok and Dapchi school girls. She expressed the concern in Abuja on Thursday while delivering a speech…

FREETOWN, SIERRA LEONE — Sierra Leone’s main opposition leader called for calm Wednesday night after his supporters engaged in running street battles with police, resulting in at least one injury at the end of an otherwise peaceful day of polling in the West African nation. “I want every Sierra Leonean to behave themselves in a…